I am a scientist. Most of my colleagues have very left views. Perhaps it depends on the particular discipline of science. Now, I am at a new position and my policy is to keep my political views to myself when I am around people from work. At my last position, I found one other person in our department who was considered on the "right". She asked me to swear not to reveal her views to others in the department, but they knew. In reality, her and my views are pretty centrist, but among persons who are so far left, we were painted with the typical broad-paint brush of rhetorical names the radical left uses to describe the other side.